[gentoo-user] Re: On what to base a custom live CD?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-11-24, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 00:02 on Thursday 25 November 2010, Grant
> Edwards did opine thusly:
>
>> I need to build a liveCD that boots on as wide a variety of hardware
>> as is practical.  It needs to load one custom kernel module and then
>> run one console-mode application.  Instead of building something from
>> scratch, I was hoping I might be able to modify an existing liveCD.
[...]
>> Does anybody have an recommendations for a good way to build a small
>> liveCD with a custom kernel module?
>
> damn small linux
>
> pretty generic, comes in at under 50M

I looked at DSL, and crossed it off the list for two reasons:

  1) It hasn't been updated in 2-1/2 years.  I need a CD that runs on
     recent hardware.

  2) There's no documentation on how to add a kernel module.
  
  3) Trimming it down (e.g. getting rid of all the X stuff and network
     stuff doesn't look easy).
  
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